Making the Most of What We Have... In an Everchanging World
"These are interesting times, in which we live!"
It's hard to believe that just two years ago, nobody knew what "Covid-19" was and few would ever have thought they would live in a "lockdown" situation, in their lifetime.
Things have changed a lot, during the past couple of years.
Here in the USA, I'm starting to see sudden rises in the price of various things. I realize, of course, that what we are seeing here is nothing like the folks in Venezuela (for example) have had to endure... but it's still concerning, given that we have also been living with shrinking incomes for a couple of years.
A couple of days ago, I was at the local supermarket, getting ready to buy a whole chicken to roast this weekend. We like roasting chicken because it's a delicious and generally not too expensive dinner.
Last time I bought a chicken, I paid $1.19/lb (about $ 2.60/kg) for it. That was about three weeks ago. Granted, it was on special, but still. This time, I ended up not buying a chicken because suddenly the price had increased to $4.49/lb (about $9.85/kg)!
What the hell? That's triple the price, in three weeks... even compared to the usual non-sale price of $1.89, that's still completely nuts!
I can only hope that's a mistake someone made in the butchery pricing station! Otherwise, we're going to be in some trouble, soon...
That said, so many things at the supermarkets have gotten distinctly more expensive this year... and it is completely out of alignment with the "official" inflation rate, now stated to be 6.2%.
Thankfully, I was able to get us a Thanksgiving turkey at the promotional price they offer, every year. I'm glad I shopped early though... I noticed there were almost no turkeys left... and it's still 10 days till Thanksgiving.
Makes me wonder whether we will see some shortages and empty supermarket shelves again this year, like we did last year. This year, the problem seem to be that the foodservices can't get people to work for them, so the food simply can't get packaged and sent to market.
Meanwhile, we are going into the holiday season without having any arts and crafts shows to go to... because they have all been cancelled. We have typically depended on those to sell both my own and Mrs. Denmarkguy's creative work, and that has usually added a nice chunk to our holiday income.
It's going to be a pretty "economy" holiday season this year, but at least we still have each other!
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
How about YOU? What are things like where you are? Has there been a rise in the cost of living, because of the whole pandemic situation? How are you managing to cope with it? Do leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!
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Nice to know about your situation there. In my place in India, everything seems to have come back to normal. The cost of living looks the same. It is so normal here that people have stopped wearing masks !
We are for the past few months having more and more restrictions placed on us, now we are getting protests.
Price of most things have increased here as well.
I did put the pool up today and if everything gets too much for me this summer, i will be located under water somewhere...
In Ukraine, prices are also rising very fast. The rise in prices is particularly affected by the energy crisis. Prices for gas, electricity and fuel are rising. As a result, new prices in the supermarket every week.
And, of course, the war. It never promotes economic growth.